RTX 5080 vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 5080 from $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX A6000 is 15% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 5080 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the RTX 5080 or the RTX A6000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5080 starts at $0.390/GPU/hr (median $0.390/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.330/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 15%.
What is the difference between the RTX 5080 and the RTX A6000?
The RTX 5080 has 16 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; the RTX 5080 is a Blackwell part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 12.0 vs 8.6); only the RTX 5080 supports FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 5080 lists from $0.390/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5080 and the RTX A6000?
2 providers list the RTX 5080 (RunPod and Vast.ai) and 4 list the RTX A6000 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Vast.ai), across 2 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5080 vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $390 on the RTX 5080 and $330 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $60 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
